Clothes-horse



N. PETERS. FHOYD-LITNOGRAPHEF. WASHlNGTON. D. C.

NITED STATES "rrio- TRISTRAM S. LEWIS, OF KENDALLS MILLS, MAINE.

CLOTHES-HORSE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TRISTRAM S. LEWIS, of Kendalls Mills, in the county of Somerset and State of Maine, have. invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Clothes- Horses; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying' drawings, of which- Figure l, is a. top view; Fig. 2, a rear elevation; Fig. 3, a front elevation; and Fig. 4, a vert-ical section of a clothes horse constructed with my improvement or invention.

In such drawings, A, and, B, are two standards or posts which are hinged together as shown at a, o, each post being trapezoidal in transverse section. To the outer faces of each post, two folding sets of slats, b, o, b, o, o, o, o, o, are applied, each slat of each set being secured to the face of the post by a screw (Z, and so as to be capable of being' turned up and down thereon. rI`he outer ends of the several slats of each set are generally applied to one of four posts, o, o, o, c, and the said slats of each set are arranged parallel to each other the whole being so as to enable the posts of the clothes horse to be folded together in a small compass as shown in Figs. 5, and G, one of which is a rear and the other a front elevation of the said clothes horse as folded together.

Each set of folding slats has a spring latch or catch, f, g, or h, z', applied to its stationary post. The two catches, f, g, of the two inner folding sets of slats are pressed asunder by a spring, 7o, extending from one to the other, each catch being made to lock on the upper slat of the set. The spring catches, L, of. the two outer sets of slats, are arranged respectively on the two faces of the posts, A, B, which close against one another each catch being placed in arecess, Z, made in the post and for its reception. The shoulder of each of these latter catches eX- tends underneath the upper slat of the folding set with which it is to operate, the same being' as shown in the drawings.

The arrangement of the four spring catches is such, that the spring, le, while operating to press the horse open and to maintain it in an extended state, when unfolded will also operate to maintain all the catches in engagement with their respective slats. Therefore, when the posts A, B, are hinged together and the four folding sets of slats are applied to them and arranged on them as described,

I claimw The arrangement of the spring 7c, and the two sets of spring catches, f, g, h, 2", in order that the said spring may perform at one and the same time the two functions as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

TRISTRAM S. LEIVIS. lWitnesses ORIGEN MCFADDEN, F. A. P. KELLEY. 

